Table 3 Comparison of community diversity indices.

From: The effect of 16S rRNA region choice on bacterial community metabarcoding results

Community diversity Indices

Mean value fot V2-V3 region

Mean value fot V3-V4 region

P_value from Wilkinson-Mann-Whitney test

Shannon index

2.79

2.72

0.62 > 0.05

Simpson index

0.79

0.82

0.76 > 0.05

Chao1 index

124

91

0.0006 < 0.05

ACE index

123

89

0.0002 < 0.05

  1. Values in bold italics are significantly different.
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